Feeding-stand for poultry



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL MCDONALD, OF GOCHRANS MILLS, PENNSYLVANIA.

\ FEEDING-STAND FOR POULTRY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 343,386, dated June 8, 1886.

Application filed March 11, 1886.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL MCDONALD, of Oochrans Mills, in the county of Armstrong and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and Improved Feeding-Stands for Poultry, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the annexed drawings, forming a part thereof, in which Figure 1 is avertical longitudinal section of my improved feeding-stand for poultry. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section taken on line :0 a: in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a verticaltransverse section taken on line y y in Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures of the drawings.

The object of my invention is to provide a stand for feeding poultry, in which the grain is supplied as it is consumed, and which is arranged to prevent the poultry from scattering the food.

My invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

The body of myimproved feeding-stand consists of side frames, A, and the end and center frames, a a 1), whose side timbers extend downward and form legs for supporting the body of the stand a short distance above the ground. The side, end, and center frames are provided with series of rods or wires 0 in their panels, which are separated from each other sufficiently to allow the fowls to gain access to the feed, but arranged so that the space between them will not permit of the entrance of the fowl into the stand. The tops of the frames a a b are made triangular to receive the roofboards d e. The roof-board d is fixed, and

the roofboards e, forming the covers of the compartments B G of the stand, are hinged to the edges of the board d and provided with arms f, for limiting their motion when opened. The feed-trough is formed of the lower boards, g, of the frames or a b and of the bottom h, secured thereto.

In the compartment 13 is supported a hopper, D, having openings 3 in the bottom thereof, and provided with a valve, j, having openings i, which may be made to coincide with the openings 2' when it is desired to al- Serial No. 194,845. (No model.)

low the contents of the hopper D to escape. The end of the valve j is prolonged beyond the end of the hopper, and is connected by a rod, 70, with the hand-lever Z, pivoted to the outer side of the frame A. Below the hop per and near the openings 2' is placed a triangular bar, n, beveled at the ends, with its angle opposite the center line of the hopper, for dividing the grain from the hopper into the feed-trough.

In the compartment 0 is placed a metallic water-trough, E, having a discharge-tube, m, extending through the bottom h, for emptying the water-trough when desirable. Soft feed is placed in the receptacle 0, formed in the bottom of the compartment 0, between the wator-trough E and the end thereof. The hopper D is filled with grain, and when the valve j is opened the grain flows into the bottom of the compartment B, and is spread evenly on all sides by the triangular bar a, and the flow of the grain is checked by the partial filling of the feed-trough at the bottom of the compartment. fowls, its place is supplied by fresh grain from the hopper D. In this manner a continuous supply of fresh grain is maintained, in the trough, and the fowls are prevented from scattering or wasting it.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A stand for feeding fowls, comprising a frame formed with two compartments having trough-shaped bottoms, barredsides and ends, a hinged cover, a grain-hopper in one compartment, a triangular grain-distributer below the hopper, and a water-receptacle in the trouglrshaped bottom of the other compartment, the space in the said trough-shaped bottom beyond the water-receptacle forming a receptacle, 0, for soft feed, substantially as set forth.

2. As an improved article of manufacture,

a stand for feeding poultry, having two compartments formed of the trough-shaped bottom h g, barred side and end frames, the fixed roof-board a, hinged covers 6, provided with the arms f, the water-receptacle E in the bottom of the compartment 0, the space in said bot- As the grain is consumed by the ICC tom beyond the waterreceptacle forming a 5 compartment B below the apertures v, substansoft-food receptacle, 0, the hopper D in the tially as set forth. compartment B, provided with apertures in M V T the bottom thereof, the valves 9', having aper- SAMUEL MLD 0h 5 tures i, the connecting-rod k, operating-lever \Vitnesses:

I, and the triangular grain-distributer n, se- XVILLIAM H. CARNAHAN, cured to the bottom of the feeding-trough in J rwon A. MYERS. 

